Linguistics transfer requirements: Foothill College → UC Santa Cruz

These are the lower-division Linguistics courses UC Santa Cruz expects you to finish before you transfer, taken from the 2025–26 ASSIST agreement, and matched to the Foothill College courses that satisfy each one.

Also searched as: UCSC.

3UC Santa Cruz requirements
3have a Foothill College match
6offered this year

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Course-by-course articulation

UC Santa Cruz requirementFoothill College course that satisfies it
JAPN 1 First-Year JapaneseJAPN 2 + JAPN 1 + JAPN 3
SPAN 1 First-Year SpanishSPAN 1 + SPAN 2 + SPAN 3
SPAN 2 First-Year SpanishSPAN 1 + SPAN 2 + SPAN 3

Verify this list on ASSIST.org before you register: choose Foothill College as your sending institution, UC Santa Cruz as the receiving institution, and Linguistics as the major. ASSIST is the only official source, and agreements change between catalog years.

Which of these you can actually take in 2025–26

Matched against the official Foothill College schedule for 2026 Fall and 2027 Winter. Seat status changes daily — the planner shows the live figures.

CourseTermCRNInstructorStatus
JAPN 22026 Fall20248Ikuko RakowClosed
JAPN 22026 Fall21218Ikuko RakowClosed
JAPN 22027 Winter31244Ikuko RakowClosed
JAPN 22027 Winter31138Ikuko RakowClosed
JAPN 12026 Fall20044Ikuko RakowWaitlist
JAPN 12026 Fall20045Fujiko WortzClosed
JAPN 12026 Fall20469Fujiko WortzClosed
JAPN 12026 Fall22088Yuco SaigusaClosed
JAPN 32027 Winter30962Ikuko RakowClosed
JAPN 32027 Winter32578Ikuko RakowClosed
SPAN 12026 Fall20299Julio Rivera-MontanezOpen
SPAN 12026 Fall20306Julio Rivera-MontanezClosed
SPAN 12026 Fall20794Patricia Crespo-MartinWaitlist
SPAN 12026 Fall20421Patricia Crespo-MartinClosed
SPAN 22026 Fall20209Julio Rivera-MontanezClosed
SPAN 22027 Winter32817Julio Rivera-MontanezClosed
SPAN 22027 Winter30797Patricia Crespo-MartinClosed
SPAN 32026 Fall20394Patricia Crespo-MartinClosed
SPAN 32027 Winter31042Julio Rivera-MontanezClosed
ASSIST is the official source for UC articulation, but it tells you which courses count, not when they run or who teaches them. The planner puts both together and warns you about time conflicts.
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